Side curtain for motor vehicles



G. W. SCOTT.

SIDE CURTAIN-FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3,1920.

Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

one looking Nov. 2353, 19923.

GEORGE "W. QCGTE', F CLEVELAND, GRID.

SI DE CURTAIN FOB MOTOR VEHICLES. A

Application filed. May 8, 1926. Serial No. 378,381.

T 0 all whom it may con cern we be it known that}, Gnonon lV. Scor'r, a

citizen ou the United States, residing at and usefulImprovements in Side Curtains t'or Motor Vehicles, of which the follow ng My invention relates to improvements in a side curtain. for automobiles of the type which attached to an upright support arranged on the door so as to open and close with the door, the invention relating more particularly to an arrangement for reinforcing the curtain at the upper end of the suplz the obgect of the invention isto provide a curtain reinforcement in the nature of a metallic socket to receive the upper end of the supportingrrod which will be simple in its construction and effective in its operation.

' Referring to the drawings:-

ig. 1 is an insi leview oi a portion of an automobile body and one of its doors, with the door partly broken away, together with a curtain support and curtain. showing my in'uiiroved reinforcement for the curtain.

2 is a side view in detail of a portion of the curtain and its support together with reinforcement for the curtain, the view being at the outside of the curtain. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of *igr. 2.

Fig. 1 is view similar to Fig. 2 but looking at the inside of the curtain.

is a detail of the metallic blank formii O my improved reintroceinent before it is bent upon itself and secured to the curtain.

The type of our ain and support to which my invention has been applied is illustrated in Fig 1, in which 1 represents a portion of the vehicle body, 2 the frame of the door, 3 the outer metallic panel of the door, 4 the inner covering of leather, 5 the metallic strip which covers the top edge of the door, 6 a

clamping device secured to the inner edge of the door and constructed in the manner illustrated in my pending application Ser. 366,082, filed Feb. 20, 1920, and 7 a iiiotallic supporting rod the main portion of which projects in a vertical direction, with the lower end bent and secured to the clamp 6 in the manner described in the application. referred to. The curtain is indicated by 8, and is secured in the usual way along its rear edge by buttons and has its forward edge provided with a strip of curtain material 9 having" its edges stitched to the curtain so as to provide a vertically-arranged pocket for the reception of the vertical sup porting rod 7; the upper edge of the strip 9 being also sewed to the main curtain portion.

In the commercial use of supports of this character it has been, found that the upper end of the rod, 7 has a tendency to break through the upper end of the curtain pocket. allowing the curtain to sag down at its for- 'ward edge, and to overcome this difiiculty.

andalso provide for stiffening the forward edge of the curtain. I provide a reinforcement for the curtain about the upper portion oi the pocket of a nature now to be described.

ltetcrriug to Fig. 5, 10 represents in a general way a metallic socket portion which has been stamped or punched from a metal sheet sous to form a reduced central portion 11 and two end portions each consisting of a central socket member 12 and 13 ot' curvilinear shape, preferably of concavo-convcx term, and side wings 14 and 15. Formed in each of the wings '14: and their channel portion 12am V-shaped cuts to providc a pair' of pointed tongues 16, and formed in each of the wings 15 is a slot 17.

In applying the socket, the blank as shown in Fig. 5 is partly bent upon itself upon a line forming, the transverse center 01 the intermediate portion 11 and slipped over the upper edge of the curtain so that the socket portions 12 an d 13 will coincide with the curtain pocket ivith the wings 1a and 15 lying along the opposite sides of the pocket; the tongues 16 having first been bent so as to stand at right-angles to the respective wings 14. Two halvesare then firmly pressed together so that the tongues 16 will puncture the material of the curtain and its strip 9 and project through the slots 17, after which the pointed ends of the tongues are bent against the wings 15, as indicated in Fig. 4.

By the construction described it will be seen that the intermediate portion 11 will form a reinforcement for the upperv end of the curtain pocket so as to prevent the supporting rod 7 from puncturing the end of the pocket, and that the wings 15 serve to stiffen the edge of the curtain and maintain the curtain or other part immediately in front of it. To prevent unduly weakening the wings it will be observed that the tongues are largely tormedfrom the intermediate portion 12 and the comparatively narrow slots 17 are extended lengthwise of the wings l5.v

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim 1. In a device of the. character described,

a reinforcing member consisting of adjacent socket portions arranged to enclose a portion of the curtain material, and an inter mediate connecting portion to form a closed end enclosing both the end of rod and ourtain. i

2. In a device of the character described, a reinforcinp metallic member for flexible articles such as a curtain, which has a supporting member, consisting of adjacent parts which form a socket toenclose aportion of thetfiexi-ble article and surround that part of the supporting member associatedtherewith, and a reinforcing connecting, portion at one end of said socket, clampin c theend of the supporting member and upper part of article, the other'end of said socket being -lett open to receive said supporting member.

3. In a device of thecharacter specified,

a metallic socketed reinforcing member arranged to'reccive a supporting rod -for',a flexible article comprising a curvilinear portion which surrounds the end of said rod and an end connecting portion, the end portion being arranged to extend across the endof said rod, a, part of the material of the flexible article being clamped between said socketed member and the end of said rod.

4. Ina device of the character described,-

the combination, with a. support-inc rod, a flexible article formed with'a pocket, a me tallic reinforcing member having, portions tot'orm a socket and also having formed integrally therewith a reinforcing connecting portion arranged to lie across the end of said rod, and clamp said pocket portion to the end of said rod, said socketed portions also encloslng a'portion of the flexible article, and means for'securmg said reinforcing member to the material of said -fl'e'xible article. I

5. In a device of thecharacter described,.

the combination, with a flexible article provided with a double thickness of material to form a pocket for a support, of a sheet metal reinforcement for said article consisting of a pair of socket portions having side wings and a central connecting portion, said socket portions andtheir wings being bent upon one another with the flexible material between the same so that the socket portions will coincide with each other and with the said pocket of the flexible material, and

means for clampingthe wings together.

- 6. In a device of the character described,

the combination with a curtain of flexible material having a vertically arranged pocket and an uprightl support located in the pocket, of a reinforcing channeled member secured to said curtainand embracing the pocket and support at a point in proximityto the upper end of the support; the channeled portion being formed open at the lower end and closed at the upper end there of to reinforce the pocket at that point.

7. In an automobile side curtain having a'curtain door to move with the automobile 

